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PRUNSAR Knowledge Directory

March 2024

This Knowledge Directory provides access to over 50 publications, videos, webtools and other knowledge products created under PRUNSAR which highlight methodologies, technologies and strategies for conducting effective agricultural research for development.

Food Systems Finance for Resilient Futures: A Multilateral Development Bank and National Development Bank Collaboration Roadmap

March 2024

This working paper proposes five recommendations that Multilateral Development Banks can adopt to implement capital adequacy reforms in a way that supports National Development Banks in transforming food systems finance.

The Luxembourg-IFAD partnership

March 2024

Luxembourg is a long-standing partner with development priorities that align with IFAD’s mandate.

IFAD Research Series 94: Engaging women in microfinance - a qualitative study of the Programme de Microfinance Rural in Mali

March 2024

This paper outlines the results of a study on the Programme de Microfinance Rural in Mali. It explores the impacts on agency and use of resources in households, with a focus on the role of gender in addressing these issues.

Monitoring and Evaluation for South-South and Triangular Cooperation in IFAD

March 2024

This brief explains how IFAD uses M&E at the corporate strategy, country strategy and project levels to maximise the impact of SSTC.

Results from the Rural Competitiveness Development Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina

March 2024

The brief emphasizes the importance of community involvement in multi-stakeholder platforms and the need for adaptive strategies, like public-private partnerships, to ensure the long-term success of programmes.

Operations Academy: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Theory of Change and Logical Framework

February 2024

This course explains the Theory of Change and the Logical Framework in IFAD projects, the difference between the two and describes how to prepare them.

Operations Academy: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) during implementation course

February 2024

This course explains the planning, monitoring and evaluation activities during project implementation. It describes the annual planning process, the need for continuous data collection and project monitoring at every project phase. It discusses field visits, supervision missions, special studies, M&E for capacity building, transforming data into meaningful information and the completion process.

Operations Academy: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plan

February 2024

This course introduces the M&E plan, its purpose and the key actors who must prepare it. It also presents suggestions for the contents.

Operations Academy: ICT4D in Agriculture - Digital Rural Finance

February 2024

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture course’ to enhance knowledge and capacity among IFAD staff and members of Project Management Units to integrate agricultural digital technologies into IFAD’s work.

Operations Academy: ICT4D in Agriculture - Value Chains, Market Access and Bundled Services

February 2024

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture’ course to further enhance IFAD staff’s knowledge and capacity to integrate agricultural digital technologies into IFAD’s work.

Operations Academy: ICT4D in Agriculture - Natural Resource Management, Biodiversity and Climate Adaptation

February 2024

This advanced course builds on the ‘Fundamentals of ICT4D in Agriculture’ course to further IFAD staff’s understandings of key principles and approaches to integrate digital solutions into IFAD’s work.

Lessons Learned from the Resilient Food Systems Programme

February 2024

This publication presents the results of the Resilient Food Systems programme which aims to strengthen policy dialogue and decision-making in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Building sustainable, climate-resilient rural livelihoods in Viet Nam

February 2024

This photo book tells the stories of ten people who benefited from the Project for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta in the Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Provinces. Three years after the project closed, the rural businesses they built have proven to be sustainable, enabling them to escape poverty and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.

Jordan Photobook: Rural Economic Growth and Employment Project

February 2024

This photobook offers a glimpse into the Rural Economic Growth and Employment Project in Jordan.

The Food of Viet Nam: 34 traditional dishes cooked by the rural people and ethnic minority groups of Viet Nam

February 2024

This cookbook contains 34 easy-to-follow traditional dishes cooked by the rural people and ethnic minority groups of Viet Nam, and recognises their invaluable role in preserving the country’s cultural and biological diversity, inspiring an appreciation for the interconnectedness of food, culture and the natural world.

Investing in rural people in the Pacific Islands

February 2024

IFAD supports Pacific Island countries to develop inclusive, productive, resilient and sustainable food systems that are community-driven.

The Brazil–IFAD partnership

February 2024

The strong partnership between IFAD and Brazil is based on a shared commitment to reducing poverty and pursuing innovative ways to assist rural communities.

IFAD Research Series 93: New methods to define and measure rurality in Latin America and their impact on public policies: the cases of Mexico and Panama

February 2024

This paper outlines two index proposals for defining and measuring rurality: the relative rurality index and the contiguity of areas of similar densities.

Understanding the new agriculture and food agenda: How is the past shaping the future?

December 2023

This paper examines to what extent, and how, donor approaches in agriculture, rural development and food systems have changed over the past 20 years, what are the main emerging issues, what should be done to address these and how these changes could shape the activities of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD).

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